Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Georgian Bay
When we recover Spiritually………
Change the way you look at things
today I had a great day………. I walked this morning and did this collage this afternoon.
the best part was going to the spirit cafe’ tonight.
spiritual nourishment was the topic of discussion this evening and it is so healing to be in a room of like minded folks.
Busy times this month and still I must stay in today……..31 days sugar free and counting!! Perhaps I need to not count the days and just do the “one day at a time” thing, which is really how I am doing it anyway. Asking the Creator each day for the gift of this new way of being.
And like Wayne Dyer says……… when you change the way you look at things – the things you look at change.
Paper Collage and other rambleings
Possiblilty Thinking
I found this picture a while back on the web, and love it for it’s movement and excitement.
Today I think of possible changes that can be made. I have returned to the awareness that I have had my TV on – to get away from the noise around me. Using it for “white noise” when in fact there is nothing white about it. So the garbage that has been pouring into my psyche for the past few weeks has to stop now.
This week someone gave me a couple of CD’s by Spiritual teachers, and as I listen I begin to realize I just purchased the new Wayne Dyer series and have not listened DUH !!
The other realization is that I have always got my spiritual nourishment ( a lot of it) from listening to spiritual teachers. Beginning with Jack Boland and Marianne Williamson on to Wayne and others. Add the Soul Series that Oprah did and I can’t believe how far away I have gotten recently from all this.
And I need to back up and listen to Wayne’s previous series called Change Your Thoughts Change Your Mind, I think this is the missing piece. (for me)
The process of these realizations has been one of connecting the dots…………. change my thinking and the possibilities arise from that place.
The clearing of my mind, the clarity that is coming to me since stopping the sugar (26 days ago) is all connected also.
Being connected to God…………….. the light ………. the comforter
Today I am …….an Artist
THIS PIECE WAS DONE BY A NATIVE ARTIST NAMED CARL RAY……….. I LOVE HIS WORK !!
today I am an artist……. I recently attended a Gallery where a paper artist absolutely was an inspiration to me. Because of my love for paper I am now trying to create my own Paper Collage.
and I will have a camera by the end of the week and will publish photos next week.
There is an Art Show on the 17th and 18th and so I would like to have some new work done by then.I traveled to Bracbridge this morning on a paper hunt…………. mulberry paper – none to be found here in Huntsville. Soon I will be out of this great “YES” glue and will need to hunt that down………on the internet.
I have to create to stay sane in this new noisy place I am living in…….. I realized yesterday that I have had the TV on for weeks; to drown out the pitter patter of heavy little feet. What is the lessen here ??
On the recovery side of life I am day 24 sugar free. And it feels so good !! and I have been listening to some CD’s that are keeping me in touch with the more Spiritual side of my life.
to blog or not to blog: seeing the LIGHT
Well it does seem I have fallen into the realm of nothingness, in terms of my blogging.
I thought at the outset of this I would be writing about my art and my recovery. My recovery is ongoing and so I need to keep writing about all of it. Perhaps recovery is just another word for life and the growth we experience.
This month I have realized many things about my relationship with food. It never ceases to amaze me how things can be just below consciousness. On some level I have known that food had become a bit of a problem, the denial in that is; it had become a huge problem.
I stopped smoking 5 1/2 years ago and I see now that I switched addictions. So in fact became a food addict. My whole life was revolving around food, just like it had around cigarettes, just like it had around drugs and alcohol. Finally about 6weeks ago I bottomed out with sugar. I know what happens to my body when I consume things like ice cream. I bloat and all the horrible part is the sugar goes right through my system like somebody is shaking a can of pop.
And yet I would go “unconscious” and be gone to the store and be ingesting the stuff. And then once again go through the experience of it all.
Today is day 23 of no sugar !!! AND no junk food (chips etc.) No french fries, no drive thru, no white bread, no potatoes, no white pasta.
And so it is. My head is clearer. I feel more awake and more alive.